The Work of the Holy Spirit Today: The End Times

Contents

About the Author

Part 1

The Work of the Holy Spirit Based on John 16

1. The Work of the Holy Spirit Today

2. Sin and Grace

3. Forgive Your Neighbour

4. A Defiled Heart—a Source of Evil

5. A Pure Heart—a Source to Love

6. The Parable of the Wedding Feast

7. The Good News of Salvation

8. Baptism of the Holy Spirit

9. The Fruit of the Holy Spirit

10. Jesus transformed lives through the work of the Holy Spirit

11. Repent and Be Zealous—The Laodicea Church

12. Jesus Prayed

PART 2

The Fulfilment of the End Times Prophecies

13. Saints Caught Up (Raptured)

14. Daniel and the Revelation

15. The Valley of Dry Bones

16. The Sealing of the Chosen Ones

17. The Kingdom of Heaven

PART 3

God’s Promises From Genesis to Revelation

18. Abraham’s Descendants

19. The World Prophesized Kingdoms

20. The Messiah Reign in the New Kingdom

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jesus said in John 16:7,

The Holy Spirit is our Comforter (KJV); Helper (NKJV);

Counselor (NIV) And Advocate (NLT)

I SABEL NODOLI RADEBE was brought up in a Pentecostal Christian family in South Africa; however, she began to have more knowledge about the Holy Spirit in 2004. At the age of twelve in 1983, a man of God was sent by God to tell her that after time, God will send her to a remotest country, and she took it lightly because she was still young at that time. This man of God died years after that message was delivered to her and what God said did came to pass after twenty-three years a s she found herself working in New Zealand which was never in her mind before.

Like many other men and women who went through dificulties, Isabel also went through problems after her parents divorced, and as children, they were left to be raised by her mother and during that time she became a victim of rape where following that, many people tried to help her but that was not enough to heal her broken heart. She thank God for her mother who encouraged her to kneel down and seek God since He is the only one who can heal a broken heart and bind up open wounds as written in Psalm 147:3-6. That led her to have a little knowledge about the Holy Spirit as a Comforter, the Helper, a Councillor and the Advocate because the Holy Spirit healed and transformed her life from inferiority to boldness in witnessing the love of Christ to people around her. After that negative event, she went to exile during the apartheid era in South Africa and right there, she met a South African man, but as they were preparing to get married, that man died in Uganda due to malaria. Then she came back to South Africa just before it was liberated. After years back in her country, she got married but that marriage only lasted for four years as her husband died due to pneumonia in 2004.

As stated by the author, she said it was by the grace of God that after coming back from exile to South Africa, she graduated and became a Civil Engineer. She worked in South Africa as well as in New Zealand in the Civil Engineering field where during those times, many good and bad things happened to her to strengthen her faith in God. Whilst in New Zealand, she had to undergo another trial when her beloved mother died in South Africa while sleeping.

In 2010, when things were beginning to work out for her, she had to resign from her employment in New Zealand due to a very strong burden that manifested in a very strong inward pull in her which she could not ignore it, and that overwhelmed her to leave her employment and return back to her country without any knowledge of God’s insight purpose for her life in South Africa. She left New Zealand through blind faith. On her arrival in South Africa, she had nothing belonging to her though she had faith to find another job, but she could not find one that would enable her to start over again. She had to pass through many discouragements limiting her freedom since she also lost all financial and material possessions she once had in these two countries.

In 2011, God gave her an opportunity to attend a conference in Johannesburg Kempton Park organised by Family Christian Church on behalf of Benny Hinn’s Ministry where Pastor Benny was leading all conference services. On the first day just before the conference began, attendees were given a chance to do some shopping in the bookshop of that church. As other people use to do, she also decided to go and look at new materials in the bookshop of which nothing was interesting to her because she did not have money to buy anything. A few weeks after the conference, she went to her shack dedicated for study and prayer that was built next to her mother’s house where she lived. She slept in this prayer house for days, praying and fasting for God to open the doors of opportunities in that desolate place as she felt so despondent for not hearing any answer from God about a new job.

One day still in the prayer shack at about 10 a.m. she prayed and went into a very deep sleep of about ten minutes. She had a dream where she saw herself in the same Christian bookshop of Christian Family Church where Pastor Benny was sharing the word of God, in the dream she was walking from shelf to shelf checking new books on sale. In one of the shelves, she saw a book titled The Holy Spirit, and she became excited.

She walked again from one shelf to another where again she saw another book on another shelf, smaller in size with the same title. When she opened this smaller book, inside was a Bible written in two columns per page with a very small print-size letters, unlike the first one. This one had at the end of pages a drawing of a tree extending and penetrating into the sky where you cannot see it’s end. She was so excited when she read that both of these books were titled The Holy Spirit, and this dream was very short since she saw nothing else apart from these two books.

When she woke up, she thanked God because she knew God was speaking as she received this dream during the time of her intimacy with Him. After that excitement, discouragement came as well since she thought God will answer her prayer of finding a new job and God did not answer that prayer. Being frustrated, she prayed again for God to take her life and her son’s at the same time because she felt she was like at the end of the road same as Elijah felt in 1 Kings 19:4. But God did not answer that prayer as well because they are still alive and He is providing for them as He provided for a widow and her son in 1 Kings 17:16. Nothing new happened after that except that God gave her strength to go on in spite of life’s challenges.

Initially, it never occurred to her that God wanted her to write a book of this title as it appeared in the dream. She thought it was just another dream. After having this dream of a book and after attending another healing school because she really wanted God’s intervention in her life and cleansing, seven months later a small still voice of the Holy Spirit told her to write the book. It was early in the morning of 2 November 2011 when she heard the voice and the title unfolded in details as, The Work of the Holy Spirit Today—The End Times.

On the same day, without wasting any time, she immediately began to write this book after hearing His voice in the early hours of the day. She then gave glory to God for opening this opportunity for her to write about the ministry of the Holy Spirit today—‘Today’ which is ‘The Days of Pentecost’. She further recalls that ‘Today—is also one of the days of the End Times’ where we see the anointing of the Holy Spirit in a very powerful way revealing things about the future as Jesus said in John 16: 13. The Lord gave her the scripture of Luke 12: 12 which says,

‘For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what out to say.’

Not having much knowledge about the Holy Spirit, it was the Holy Spirit who revealed Himself to her as well as what to say in this book. Again, when we pray according to God’s will and claim His promises, He hears us and answers our requests (1 John 5: 14-15) because when God calls you, you also need to respond to the call since the Holy Spirit is the One who opens the way but we need to do the walking as He leads us because we are partakers of the Holy Spirit as it is written in Hebrews 6:4.

A Declaration Made by the Author

I therefore like to declare that all that is written in this book is like a small direction arrow pointing to the word of God. His word is true and pure. If anything written in this book does not point to His word, you may ignore it as a reader. Jesus said in John 17: 17, God’s word is truth and it is eternal, meaning that all things will pass away but the word of our eternal God will remain as written in Isaiah 55: 11.

In other words, I did not plan what to write and when to write it; it is by His Spirit. It never even came to my mind that one day I would write any book since my focus was on engineering field and not on writing books due to my weaknesses on writing skills but God is the One who gives wisdom and understanding in our weaknesses. I just want to say this is a blessing that comes from God because He knows our future (Jeremiah 29: 11). In another dream, the Lord Jesus assured me that I must never be afraid because the Holy Spirit is with me, and that assurance gave me courage while writing this book and a revelation came to me that this is my first and the last book to write in this biblical history because it is about the End Times. I believe you will be abundantly blessed when you read this book, which I wrote as a vessel.

The Bible highlights in Revelation 4 and 19: 9 that,

‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding of the Lamb…’

for the wedding has come.

For any wedding, preparations are done.

Be blessed in Jesus Name. Amen!

PART 1

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Based on John 16

1. The Work of the Holy Spirit Today

Jesus said in John 16: 8,

‘And when He (the Holy Spirit) has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.’

T HERE ARE MORE scriptures in the Holy Bible that are very explicit in giving us the revelation of the Holy Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—consisting of three separate and distinct Persons in the Godhead working together in unity eternally. The Holy Scriptures highlight that after the fall, there were many prophecies about the coming of the Messiah (God the Son) to the earth in order to redeem a man from the bondage of sin as this was part of God’s plan. The Messiah came, lived, died and He also promised to send the Holy Spirit after His r esurrection and ascension to be our Helper (John 16:7). Since the Holy Spirit has already come, this promise was fulfilled in Acts 2: 1-4.

The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Holy Trinity, and He is here on earth today to reveal and to glorify Jesus as well as to reveal the future and the truth to those who believe in Jesus Christ (John 16: 13-14). This book therefore focuses more on the Work of the Holy Spirit today based on John 16 where:-

1) He is convicting the world of its sin and calling it for repentance. According to Jesus, sin is ‘not to believe in Him as the Son of God’ (John 16: 9 and 14: 6 highlights that—no one who can go to the Father except through Him because He is the way, the truth and the life).

2) He also reveals the standard of God’s righteousness to all who believe in Christ since Christ is no longer physically present in this world, and this is already happening.

3) Today He is also demonstrating Christ’s judgment over Satan, and this also includes the repentance of man from sin, because when the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, through God’s grace, we begin to acknowledge that we have sinned and seek to repent (turning away from sin to God as He is the only One who forgives), and this is already happening.

4) He finally helps us to commit our lives back to God and live according to His will, and again this is already happening.

The Good News is that we are still living in the Days of Pentecost today. In Joel 2:28-29 God promised the outpouring of His Spirit to all flesh of which this outpouring began to the church in the Pentecost Day and will be completely fulfilled before the Second Coming of Christ since this is the prophecy of the End Times.

The Attributes of the Holy Spirit

He is Sovereign—To show His Sovereignty, in Genesis 1: 2, we read that the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. The Holy Spirit was there in the creation to